Product Overview
Leather Nubuck Urine Odor Killer Kit N5.uk by Leather Doctor cleans, rinses, pH balance, hydrates, fat liquors, and deodorizes urine problems holistically.
Urine becomes an alkaline toxicity when fermented by the natural bacteria from the atmosphere, causing its pH value to rise.
The pH value of leather is neutral at 3-5; any noticeable ammonia odor indicates that the pH has risen to 10.
Reaching an alkaline toxic level, the leather constituents like the tanning agent, dyestuff, and fatliquor migrate, leaving behind discoloration and rings from dyestuff, tackiness from the tanning agent reverting to rawhide, whitish spew from fatliquor stiffen and dry out the leather.
The urine problem is systematically solved in sync, dovetailing to the final desired result in the following sequence of products:
Leather Urine Cleaner 1.5
Leather Acidifier 2.0
Leather Urine Odor Killer 2.1
Nubuck Cleaner 4.5
Nubuck Rinse 2.3
Leather Hydrator 3.3
Leather Scented Fatliquor 5.0 Plus
Leather Scented Protector S Plus
People Also Ask:
1: What is Nubuck?
2: What is Urine?
3: What is Leather Urine Cleaner 1.5?
4: What is Leather Acidifier 2.0?
5: What is Leather Urine Odor Killer 2.1?
6: What is Nubuck Cleaner 4.5?
7: What is Nubuck Rinse 2.3?
8: What is Leather Hydrator 3.3?
9: What is Leather Scented Fatliquor 5.0 Plus?
10: What is Leather Scented Protector S Plus?
11: What is the Concentrate Ratio Mix with Distilled Water?
12: How to Decontaminate Urine from Nubuck?
13: Instruction to Decontaminate Urine from Nubuck!
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1: What is Nubuck?
1.1: Nubuck is top-grain cattle leather that has been buffed on the grain side or the outside to create a velvet-like texture or nap.
1.2: It has the characteristic of napping with the softest “hand” or tactile feel.
1.3: Although nubuck is aniline dyed through, it is commonly finished with a surface dye, sometimes incorporating micro-pigment to cover up some natural blemishes.
1.4: It looks similar to suede, and the difference is that suede is created from the flesh side, whereas nubuck is from the grain side of the leather.
1.5 As nubuck and suede are napped leathers, it is often incorrectly identified as suede.
1.6: Nubuck is subject to the common sun-fading issue, however, the dormant dyestuff within may be activated with hydration to resurface.
1.7: It is like reactivating tea leaves with hot water to bring out the color, and in Nubuck, Hydrator 3.3 is used.
1.8: Fat liquoring that follows to recondition leather dryness increases its color intensity with Fatliquor 5.0.
1.9: Nubuck is both hydrophilic and oleophilic, and its open nap absorbs water and oil more readily than any other smooth leather.
1.10: Fatliquor plays a critical role in maintaining the reducing ingress of water and grease stains, plumping with fullness, and lubricating with suppleness, reducing creases and wrinkles.
1.11: Nubuck is an amphoteric material, and a leather-safe pH 3 to 5 care product system is highly recommended to keep them clean while maintaining their chemistry integrity.
2: What is Urine?
2.1: Urine is a compound waste discharge of urochrome, uric acid, and ammonium salt to solve.
2.2: When deposited urine attracts the natural bacteria from the atmosphere and starts to ferments, a putrid odor will develop from the protein component of the urine, and an ammonia odor will develop from the ammonium salt.
2.3: When ammonia odor becomes present, the pH of the contamination would have shifted to 10.
2.4: Such high pH above the neutral average of 3 to 5 of leather causes the amphoteric protein fiber to shift ionic negative (-ve); that causes the protein fibers to repel its other ionic negative (-ve) constituents like the tanning agent, fatliquor and dyestuff.
2.5: As poles repel, behaving just like the attraction of a magnet.
2.6: When the leather constituent breaks the hydrogen bond with the protein fiber, the leather starts to denature and revert to rawhide.
2.7: A typical appearance of an aged or compounded contamination is a darkening effect from the fugitive tanning agents and dye rings, a whitening effect from the fatliquor, or a discoloration from the fugitive dyestuff.
2.8: Fugitive dyestuff or bleeding is apparent from a white towel detection and yellowing from the urochrome.
2.9: The denaturing or reverting to the rawhide effect of the leather is further confirmed by tackiness or in the worst case sliminess in the presence of moisture.
2.10: The leach-out fatliquor results in stiffness, and fugitive dyestuff results in discoloration.
3: What is Leather Urine Cleaner 1.5?
3.1: Urine 1.5 is a pH 1.5 balanced specialty urine cleaner and neutralizer from reverting the leather into a sticky rawhide.
3.2: Urine 1.5 is a water-based urine pre-cleaner working in conjunction with Urine 2.1, depending on the severity of the urine contamination.
3.3 When contamination is odorous and discolored, proceeding with Urine 2.1 is mandatory to achieve the desired result.
4: What is Leather Acidifier 2.0?
4.1: Acidifier 2.0 is a pH 2.0 rinse to control, neutralize, and pH-balance leather from denaturing into bleeding, streaking, or getting tacky.
4.2: Acidifier 2.0 rectifies, and pH balances leather from denaturing from alkaline toxicity, including alkaline products and cleaners.
4.3: Acidifier 2.0 charges the leather protein fiber ionic positive (+ve) to increase the ionic attraction between the ionic negative (-ve) leather constituent like the tanning agent, dyestuff, and fatliquor from common side effects.
5: What is Leather Urine Odor Killer 2.1?
5.1: Urine 2.1 eliminates, neutralizes, pH balances, and suspends the ammonia and alkaline phosphorus salt found in urine.
6: What is Nubuck Cleaner 4.5?
6.1: Nubuck 4.5 is an all-purpose universal mild cleaner without the potential side effects associated with rings and browning for Nubuck.
6.2: Nubuck 4.5 is a water-based cleaner with a pH value of 4.5 that safes on leather, suede, and all-natural and synthetic fabric lining, excluding rayon and silk.
7: What is Nubuck Rinse 2.3?
7.1: Nubuck 2.3 is a pH 2.3 value rinse to remove suspended soiling that also functions as a pH balancer for nubuck and suede types.
7.2: Nubuck 2.3 removes suspended soiling by towel extraction while neutralizing harmful alkaline residues.
8: What is Leather Hydrator 3.3?
8.1: Hydrator 3.3 hydrates dried, stiff, shrunk nubuck before fat liquoring.
8.2: Hydrator pH 3.3 safely facilitates colloidal water movement and helps redistribute the leather constituents, reactivating the dormant dyestuff to resurface and reducing the leather surface interfacial tension.
9: What is Leather Scented Fatliquor 5.0 Plus?
9.1: Fatliquor 5.0 Plus is a scent fat and oil ionic negative (-ve) charged emulsion conditioner that softens all leather, nubuck, and suede from dryness, stiffness, and cracking.
10: What is Leather Scented Protector S Plus?
10.1: Protector S Plus is a silky-feel, non-stick scented conditioner for Nubuck, suede, pure-aniline, hair-on-hide, and sheepskin.
10.2: Protector S Plus imparts a non-stick, rub-resistant breathable barrier to shield the detrimental effects of sticky soiling.
10.3: Protector S Plus natural silky-feel resistance to wet and dry rubs, thus reducing stretch, scuff, abrasion, and wear.
11: Instruction - What is the Concentrate Ratio Mix with Distilled Water?
11.1: Concentrates are mixed with distilled water accordingly before use as follows:
11.2: Leather Urine Cleaner 1.5 ratio 1: 12.
11.3: Leather Acidifier 2.0 ratio 1: 25.
11.4: Leather Urine Odor Killer 2.1 ratio 1: 1
11.5: Nubuck Cleaner 4.5 ratio 1: 64
11.6: Nubuck Rinse 2.3 ratio 1: 80
11.7: Leather Hydrator 3.3 ratio 1: 25
11.8: Leather Scented Fatliquor 5.0 Plus ratio 1: 5
11.9: Leather Scented Protector S Plus ratio 1: 15
12: How to Decontaminate Urine from Nubuck?
12.1: A systematic sequence of decontamination approach includes surface residue removal with Urine 1.5 and rinse with Acidifier 2.0, recharging the protein fiber ionic positive (+ve), and neutralizing the ammonium salt with Urine 2.1.
12.2: Utilizing a low pH treatment retards bacteria activities from off-gassing putrid odors, a natural pH control without the need to use bactericide or fungicide for mold prevention.
12.3: Therefore, urine is a type of soiling that will require a biochemistry approach to decontaminate it.
12.4: Restoring the leather begins after decontamination with Hydrator 3.3, a pH 3.3 multifunctional product that has ionic positive (+ve) charging abilities, an active surfactant essential for foreign water movement within the inter-fibrillary spaces to redistribute the leather constituents and purging foreign contamination to resurface.
12.5: This is the last step of the wet cleaning process to remove suspended urochrome yellowish compound through visible white tissue paper as an extension of the leather in the wicking process as the leather dries naturally.
12.6: Only then, without a trace of the urine stain, that fat liquoring with Fatliquor 5.0 commences.
12.7: The emulsified fat and oil water-encased molecule breaks free when hydrogen bond attraction between the fat and oil with the protein fiber, leaving a breathing space essential for leather transpiration to function naturally.
12.8: The fat plumps the leather with fullness from easily collapsing into creases and wrinkles during stress or flex, and the oil lubricates the fibers so that they slide over one another like millions of interconnecting hinges with smoothness.
12.9: One important unique characteristic of leather is suppleness with strength, and much depends on the fatliquor in this holistic approach to effective leather urine decontamination and restoration.
12.10: Aniline Staining Dye 21 and Leather Acidifier 2.0 system is recommended for color repair.
13: Instruction:
13.1: Dry soil removal before application with nylon Nubuck Brush 2 in combination with Eraser 4 and towel extract until it shows clean.
13.2: Apply Urine 1.5 and agitate with Brush 2, Eraser 4, and towel extract until it shows clean, ready for rinsing.
13.3: Apply Acidifier 2.0 and agitate with Brush 2, Eraser 4, and towel extract until it shows clean.
13.4: Inspect for tackiness with finger testing, otherwise, repeat rinsing with Acidifier 2.0 until satisfaction.
13.5: Apply Urine 2.1 and soak into the stain area to contact the penetrated urine for a chemical reaction, sour odor will dissipate when dry.
13.6: Inspect for deodorizing effect with satisfaction, otherwise, repeat application and let to slow natural drying.
13.7: Nubuck 4.5 for cleaning is applied and brushed for an even appearance without leaving a dry edge and towel extract until the towel shows clean.
13.8: Nubuck 2.3 for rinsing is applied and brushed for an even appearance without leaving a dry edge and towel extract until it shows clean.
13.9: Hydrator 3.3 is applied, and the stain areas are saturated and extend to the entire surface without a dry edge.
13.10: Hydrator 3.3 helps to activate dormant dyestuff and redistribute to help even out coloration.
13.11: An effective color redistribution is by covering the saturation with a cling wrapper to reduce evaporation and prolong dwelling.
13.12: Fatliquor 5.0 is applied when color redistribution improves to the entire surface without a dry edge and let to dry out the water content.
13.13: Fatliquor 5.0 is repeatedly applied each time the water content evaporates until the leather is fully saturated.
13.14: The saturated leather is left to dry naturally.
13.15: Hydrator 3.3 is sprayed, brushed, and towel extracted until residue turns clear and let to dry naturally.
13.16: Massaging to dry produce a softer leather.
13.17: The stain is inspected with an option for color refinishing.
13.18: Otherwise, Protector S Plus ends the urine decontamination process.
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Edited September 18, 2024, by Roger Koh.